Exodus 23:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate [for lack of attention] and the wild beasts multiply against you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

Common English Bible

²⁹ I won’t drive them out before you in a single year so the land won’t be abandoned and the wild animals won’t multiply around you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ I will not cast them out from your face in one year, lest the land be reduced to a wilderness and the wild beasts increase against you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

Exodus 23:29 Cross References

Exodus 23:30

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Exodus 34:24

For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year.

Deuteronomy 7:22

And the LORD thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Joshua 15:63

And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, unto this day.

Joshua 16:10

And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of Ephraim, unto this day, and became servants to do taskwork.